Ok cool, I misunderstood, sorry. smile

Yeah I get you Hixxy, it's just the point of this post was to do away with that code and to not have to write 5 or more lines of code if I wanted to use a hash table.

@Drum: Good point. I think that's a better idea. If the file doesn't exist mIRC wouldn't hload the table, but hsave it to that file name when it closed.

I proposed the error/notice message because it's a lot easier and faster to just write an error and halt than to manage errors and work around them. I figured the more intricate and detailed the request got, the less chance of actually seeing it in a future version of mIRC.